Children sit in front of a burnt house in Baga, Nigeria, on April 21, 2013 after two days of clashes between officers of the Joint Task Force and members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram.

Online Australia reports Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria, killing 42 people, mostly students, some of the pupils were burned alive.

Gunmen believed to be Islamists from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgent group, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege“, committed the overnight attack on a secondary school in restive Yobe state, a medical worker and residents said Saturday.

“We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School (in) Mamudo last night. Some of them had gunshot wounds while many of them had burns and ruptured tissues,” Haliru Aliyu of the Potiskum General Hospital told AFP.
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Franciscan Father, Francois Murad

Updated: A news release from the Vatican was wrong, in part, when it suggested that on June 23, Syrian priest Francois Murad was beheaded.  New reports suggest he was shot while attempting to defend his sister nuns. The report was correct in that Murad was martyred on June 23, by jihadists while taking refuge in the monastery of St. Simon.

The Vatican’s first release had noted, “The circumstances of the death are not fully understood.”
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If any ever had a doubt that government can and occasionally does abuse its force and power, the case of a simple trip to the grocery to buy bottled water could prove enlightening.

The Blaze writes: It should have been just a simple trip to the grocery store to buy bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream for a sorority event.

Instead, six plainclothes officers swarmed University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, who was ultimately arrested and spent the night and next afternoon in jail, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported.
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